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Old 31st Dec 2011, 09:40
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Angel New Year Honours list - award to JimL

Yes folks, Rotorheads most erudite and seasoned contributor awarded an MBE "For Services to Aviation Safety", richly deserved.
with fraternal greetings,
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JimL - Congrats

Over the years Jim has been a great help to me personally and to the industry as a whole. Richly deserved. WELL DONE JIM.

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Congratulations Jim
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Brilliant Jim, very well deserved. Congratulations.
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Have enjoyed many conversations/discussions/arguments with you over the years but always with respect for your ability. Glad to see you finally recognised.
Well done.

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Fabulous news, and well deserved.

Congratulations Jim.
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MBE: James Edward Lyons. Helicopter Safety Expert. For services to Aviation Safety. (Horsham, West Sussex)
Yes, well done indeed! If anyone could provide a brief snippet of the work Jim gets up to I would be most interested.

Other recipients in this year's list, related to aviation (non-military) were:

MBE: Michael James Marcus Edwards. Pilot, British Airways. For services to UK/India relations and to the British aircraft industry

MBE: Christopher Farnaby. Head of Operations (Aerodromes), CAA. For services to Aviation Safety. (Horsham, West Sussex)

And my personal favourite:

OBE: Professor Robert Owen Jones. Monitor, Welsh Language Project in Patagonia. For services to safeguarding the Welsh language in Argentina. (Pontarddulais, Swansea)
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A somewhat muted response from some of those who experienced JimL`s personal take on CRM around about April 1977 in Bristows. I am also getting ghostly whispers of disbelief from Bristow hierachy long since departed.
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CRM acceptance by senior Bristow folks???

I reckon the Crown now recognizes" Bolshies"!

Congratulations Jim! It is good to see the "Good'uns" receive some well deserved recognition.
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Congratulations, Jim! And thanks for your professional, thoughtful and supportive PM's to this newbie to helicopters.
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SASless - trust you to get the wrong end of the stick. I was referring of course to those young, vulnerable First Officers who, after the resolution of the Bristow Strike of 1977, were actively threatened by your hero JimL to continue strike action in order to prolong the strike to achieve union recognition, leading to their dismissal from the company. This in the full knowledge that he ,himself, was set up with a lucrative arrangement with Helicopter Services in Stavanger.

Personally, I am not a supporter of those being rewarded in this manner for merely doing their jobs and like it or not, JimL`s job latterly with the CAA was to promote helicopter safety.
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Many congratulations Jim and wishing you a very happy prosperous New Year.

Look forward to seeing you around.

All the best

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Well done Jim, thoroughly deserved. Your level of energy, knowledge and professionalism is something we should all try to aspire to.


Happy New Year!
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Congratulations Jim, and thanks for the steadfast counsel you provide in open forum and via PM. It’s refreshing that your posts are always objective and without rancor.

HT
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Congratulation!

Just keep going and advise us like you've been doing here and other meetings.
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Thumbs up

Congratulations Jim, a well-deserved award.

Savoia, Jim was the 2005 recipient of the Eric Brown award and for some years now I believe has been running seminars for CAA/JAA/EASA/ICAO on helicopter performance.

Here are links to a couple of his papers:
The Hostile Environment

Helicopter Class 2 Performance
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A nice recgonition for years of hard work promoting safety. Well done.
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Congratulations Jim! It's a sad irony, though, to see 'industry' trying to reverse much of his good work
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JimL OBE

Great news & very justly deserved! A good way to start the New Year!

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Congratulations

IMHO deserved for a sincere and coherent structure which has forced oil dollars to be spent with manufacturers.

Although I don't agree as to is applicability to the onshore and particularly the Private Flying sector (where the cost and risk of twins would IMO outweigh the relatively rare benefits. Power/control/structural margin being far more important) - I respect you, in that you have always answered me with genuine civility and reasoned arguement - which is the only way for civilised progress, thank you.

I hope you will go on to look more roundly at a realistic framework for Private Helicopters.
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